Can anyone help with tips on how to create a more realistic space scene.  Im just using spheres and stars - but I want more in there - coloured nebulae and cloudy heavenly expanses - hubble space telescope type of images.
Also Im wanting to do a poster for a friend - a misty forest scene - but cant figure out how to get a nice deep mist from ground up - with a good depth of field.
Ive googled for tuts but havent struck paydirt on these.
Hope Im not being a pain here - still a noob - but trying to learn all I can.

One cheat that works: you might want to paint something or find a picture from Nasa and such, and texture-map it on top of a billboard polygon.

Globular clusters are also nicely done this way.

I have a few tutorials all over the Dogwaffle site, some of it can easily be done with the free version.
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/tuts - look around.

I'm sure there are other ways, in Bryce-only, but this is the first thing that came to mind: work with pictures, either to map onto billboards, or to use in a brush to paint even more nebulae with.

-Philip

PS: here's an example to making astronomy backgrounds:

http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/tuts/backgrounds/index.html

PPS:  and some more examples:

http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/art/spaceart/index.html

You can try these tutorials over at 3d-spacemodels.co.uk  or if video is your thing, try this one out for size: www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-create-outer-space-landscape, Near Star, Far Stars, Planet You might want to google again using the keywords: bryce tutorials beginner space.

Universe Image Creator http://www.diardsoftware.com/ The trial version is crippled, but still let's you draw individual stars and gas clouds. Load a Bryce render and post work the sky.

Grab NASA images of nebulas and put them on a 2d using the Leonardo tool. Crank the diffusion and ambient chanels both up to 100. Stick them up in the sky.

Thanks everyone - this is great!

http://www.solarvoyager.com/tutorials.asp?SID=C7CDCDE1C92C4FA18A92125495167C95B83

Don't know if you have photoshop, but these tutorials are very good.

Hi, Joe.

Hello Willy,
How's it going?

Thanks orbital for taking the time - the tutorials are excellent - I do have photoshop and a tablet but Im still a noob to that as well.  See I was a musician most of my life - but retired from the game now - and the last two or three years I have gotten seriously interested in CGI.  I have Bryce Vue and Photoshop and a good deal of time these days to grow and develop in me old age!

Perfect way to spend your time!